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This site is designed to be a resource for any business owner who needs to know about Safety issues in the workplace. It’s called “Health and Safety Exchange” as we wish it to become an exchange of opinions, views and ideas that will help us to help you mould your Safety policies to be a positive influence in your business environment.
Do give us your perspectives – we welcome them.
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Tom Searle, Director, Britrisk Safety
This year the government has finally announced that they will be setting up an independent regulatory challenge panel to assist businesses that feel they have been the “recipients of erroneous, or over-the-top advice from HSE” This is in the wake of the findings of the Löfstedt review that was held in November that asked for a process to be put into place for incidents where an over application of health and safety had been applied. Read more »
I think the launch of the new fire risk assessor professional register by the Institute of Fire Safety Managers (IFSM) is is a really good thing for our industry. The register will recognise all he schemes that have UKAS accreditation so by using a supplier that is registered you can rest assured that they have been through a recognised accreditation program to perform effective Fire Risk Assessments. Read more »
I was ready recently in the news about how a construction worker was permanently scarred after an electrical explosion occurred when underground cables were hit, and it just re-iterated to me how important method statements and risk assessments are to even the most simple of jobs.
Taking the case of this poor man, who was simply asked to install a sign outside the front gates of his firm, failure to do this effectively has left him scarred for life – literally… Read more »
I happened to glance a peek of this video on a popular early morning television program, and it did make me smile so I had to share it with you Read more »
I was reading a news item last month about the health and safety in schools when it comes to asbestos, and how after an audit by the Health and Safety Executive 20% of the 164 schools surveyed had unacceptable procedures in place for dealing with asbestos, Read more »
